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The Levels & Trends in Child Mortality’ Report 2020
September 14 , 2020
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- According to the new UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) report, the Child Mortality Rate in India has seen a decline to 34 in 2019 from 126 in 1990.
- India has registered a 4.5% annual rate of reduction in under-five mortality between 1990-2019.
- India along with Nigeria is still accounted for almost a third of all under-five deaths in 2019.
- The infant mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) in India has declined from 89 in 1990 to 28 in 2019.
- India has also witnessed a decrease in neonatal mortality rates between 1990 and 2019 from 57 to 22.
Other countries
- The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lower point on record in 2019 down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990.
- The regions of Central and Southern Asia and Oceania (excluding New Zealand and Australia) both saw a faster decline in the under-five mortality rate from 2010-2019 compared to 2000-2009.
- As per the report, about 53% of all under-five deaths in 2019 occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Roughly 1.5 million children died in 2019 before reaching age five in Central and Southern Asia.
- In 2019, 49 percent of all under-five deaths occurred in just five countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, and Ethiopia.
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